About Kati Brown

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I've been reading romance for more than 30 years and reviewing regularly for the last five. My first romance was Irish Thoroughbred by Nora Roberts, and once I read it, I was a goner. I read most subgenres of romance (except inspirational and steampunk) but focus mostly on contemporary and paranormal, with a sprinkling of historical thrown in for flavor. I am an avid sports fan, so I have a special place in my heart for sports themed romances. I'm a sucker for old skool romance, which is probably most evident in the fact that The Windflower is my favorite romance of all time.

Posts by Kati Brown:

Interview (and Giveaway!) with Colleen Gleason, Author of Roaring Midnight (The Gardella Vampire Chronicles)

Interview (and Giveaway!) with Colleen Gleason, Author of Roaring Midnight (The Gardella Vampire Chronicles)

Today is the release date for Colleen Gleason’s next installation in her paranormal romance series: The Gardella Vampire Chronicles. While I’ve been complaining for a while that I think vampires series are a bit played out, this series features fabulous vampire slayers a la Buffy Summers, AND this trilogy is set in the 1920′s, a(…)

REVIEW:  Roaring Midnight (The Gardella Vampire Chronicles) by Colleen Gleason

REVIEW: Roaring Midnight (The Gardella Vampire Chronicles) by Colleen Gleason

Dear Ms. Gleason: I was a tremendous fan of the first of your Gardella Vampire Chronicles series, so I was really excited to hear that you were writing more Gardellas, and intrigued to find they would be set in the 1920′s. Macey Denton works at the library at the University of Chicago. She lives in(…)

REVIEW:  One Sweet Ride: A Play-by-Play Novel by Jaci Burton

REVIEW: One Sweet Ride: A Play-by-Play Novel by Jaci Burton

Dear Ms. Burton: Your Play-by-Play series has been a pretty consistent favorite for me, with each book featuring an athlete hero and the woman he falls for. In One Sweet Ride, we meet Grey Preston, a very successful team owner/driver on the NASCAR circuit. Grey is estranged from his father, a powerful US Senator, who(…)

REVIEW:  Fire Inside: A Chaos Novel by Kristen Ashley

REVIEW: Fire Inside: A Chaos Novel by Kristen Ashley

Dear Ms. Ashley: Lanie Heron is a survivor. She survived loving her man so much, she took a bullet for him. She survived his betrayal and involvement in the mob. She survived choosing to stand by him and nearly getting killed. She survived her childhood, complete with philandering father and drunken mother. She’s survived all(…)

REVIEW:  Entwined with You (A Crossfire Novel) by Sylvia Day

REVIEW: Entwined with You (A Crossfire Novel) by Sylvia Day

 **NOTE: This review contains mild spoilers for the two previous books, as it’s impossible to talk about the storyline of Entwined with You without referencing earlier events. I’ve tried to remain as vague as possible.** Dear Ms. Day: I think that your Crossfire series qualifies as “extreme romance“. Even though it portrays an incredibly screwed(…)

REVIEW:  Down London Road by Samantha Young

REVIEW: Down London Road by Samantha Young

Dear Ms. Young: Last year’s On Dublin Street was one of my Top 10 picks of 2012, so I was most eager to read Down London Road. I’m delighted to say that I enjoyed it as much as I did On Dublin Street. Johanna Walker is a young, smart woman who has been handed a(…)

REVIEW:  Real by Katy Evans

REVIEW: Real by Katy Evans

Dear Ms. Evans: When Jane contacted me and said that there was a new book coming out with an underground fighter hero, I immediately requested the book. I love fighters, and the high stakes physicality of them. Your new book, Real, features Remington Tate, a disgraced boxer, who now is fighting on the Underground circuit,(…)

REVIEW:  Lush – Delicious Book 3 by Lauren Dane

REVIEW: Lush – Delicious Book 3 by Lauren Dane

Dear Ms. Dane: After reading this book, I have a new favorite hero trope: I call it, “Hero in Hot Pursuit”. Mary Whaley runs a very successful catering company and a supper club. She has good friends, a loving family and is generally both busy and truly happy with her life. She offers to cater(…)

REVIEW:  Wrecked by Shiloh Walker

REVIEW: Wrecked by Shiloh Walker

Dear Ms. Walker: You and I are friendly on Twitter, but for the most part in the past, your books have not worked very well for me. But when I read the blurb for Wrecked, it sounded right up my alley. Abigaile Applegate and Zach Barnes are tied inextricably together by their past as child(…)

REVIEW:  Lover At Last by J.R. Ward

REVIEW: Lover At Last by J.R. Ward

Dear Ms. Ward: I’ll be honest — I was a rabid fan of the first three books in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. In fact, I’ll still pull out Lover Eternal sometimes, because I enjoy Rhage and Mary’s story so much. But as the series turned more towards Urban Fantasy and became more epic in(…)

BOOK CLUB: Uncommon Pleasure by Anne Calhoun

BOOK CLUB: Uncommon Pleasure by Anne Calhoun

  1 – What was the inspiration for this duology? Ty first appeared in a Quickie I released through Ellora’s Cave called ON THE EDGE. I intended him to play a very minor role in the story when I drafted it, but the moment he showed up at No Limits, the bar where so much(…)

REVIEW:  Thrown By A Curve by Jaci Burton

REVIEW: Thrown By A Curve by Jaci Burton

Dear Ms. Burton: Just last baseball season, I finally became seduced by the sport after watching the Washington Nationals’ (Go Nats!) improbable run into the post season. The Nationals’ star pitcher had reconstructive elbow surgery almost two years ago now, so the set-up for Thrown by a Curve interested me. Garrett Scott is a star(…)

REVIEW:  Sugar Daddy by Nicole Andrews Moore

REVIEW: Sugar Daddy by Nicole Andrews Moore

Dear Ms. Andrews Moore: I’ll be honest — this book caught my eye because it shares a title with one of my favorite Lisa Kleypas books.  What I found was a mostly engaging if relatively bland contemporary novel with a heroine who is  a Mary Sue, and an uptight hero who unwound as he fell(…)

REVIEW:  Raid by Kristen Ashley

REVIEW: Raid by Kristen Ashley

Dear Ms. Ashley: That I requested Raid for review comes to a surprise to no one. The fact that I gobbled it up in less than three hours probably also comes as no surprise either. Of all of your series, the Unfinished Hero series is the one that I’m most likely to have issues with.(…)

REVIEW:  Going Under (A Bound by Magick Novel) by Lauren Dane

REVIEW: Going Under (A Bound by Magick Novel) by Lauren Dane

Dear Ms. Dane: Your Bound by Magick series is my favorite of your paranormal series. Clan Owen, one of the largest and oldest covens of witches in the United States is recovering from the horror of the Magister, a superpowered enemy that annihilated much of witch-kind, but was beaten back at the end of the(…)